Ocean & Environment
Applicants should explore questions related to the West Cork Islands under the theme Ocean & Environment
Open Call: Sept 9th to Oct 31st
Project Delivery: Jan 2025 to mid 2026
Budget: €35,000
Online Information session: Oct 15, 2024 from 1PM – 2PM for artists in all art forms interested in applying for the CPWCI Ocean & Environment Commission.
Public Art Open Call – Ocean & Environment
Creative Places West Cork Islands welcomes creative submissions from socially engaged artists, designers, craft-makers, or creative teams in relation to a new socially engaged commission that will respond to all of the seven inhabited islands of West Cork under the theme Ocean and Environment. This socially engaged commission will run from January 2025 to Summer 2026. The available budget is €35,000.
The aim of this commission is for art to create a space for dialogue and understanding, promoting social progress and cultural innovation in response to contemporary challenges. The climate crisis represents one of the greatest challenges of our time, requiring collective efforts to mitigate its impacts and ensure sustainability for future generations. The arts can foster a sense of urgency around the need for environmental stewardship and connect communities in an increasingly divided world.
Full-time population across seven inhabited West Cork Islands: 561
Examples of these topics and questions may include
Resilience of coastal communities and means by which island populations interact with land and sea in the context of the climate crisis
Does the climate crisis have an impact on contemporary island life and what would it mean for the islands when the facts of climate science materialise
Plastic (including microplastics and oceanic pollution)
Coastal erosion
Food, fishing, and farming
Renewable energy
Ocean & environmental ethics
Waste management, recycling, upcycling, and sustainability as a way of life on the islands
